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Re:An award-winning LCD with an Arduino built-in (using only... by lgeek on Friday January 31, 2014 @05:55AM (#7156147)
I'm all for supporting small business that create hardware, especially open source (heck, I'm working on some stuff myself), but they must make an effort to make their products affordable. I can buy a 3.2" touchscreen LCD for $12 in single quantities[0], shipped locally in the UK. The BOM for an Arduino is somewhere around $10 in single quantities. Their selling point about only using 2 pins? Yeah, shift registers or i2c I/O expanders are so fancy...

[0] http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-2-TFT-LCD-Display-Module-Touch-P...

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